Text #296

Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player's regime of competence. That is, they feel doable but challenging. This makes them pleasantly frustrating - a flow state for human beings.

—from What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, a book by James Paul Gee

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Default (English) 144,094 76.75 September 30, 2008
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##typeracer 13 68.97 December 25, 2020
TypeRacer Classic 1 57.28 January 10, 2022
Mrs. Wunschel's TypeRacer Universe 1 33.02 December 19, 2012
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